Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a friendship toast in Pyongyang, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter proved a serious intermediary between Washington and Kim Il Sung
...troops l6 minutes into D-day. They were the first Allied soldiers on the ground, and they captured the bridge in a few minutes, a distinction they do not want to lose in the crowded annals of history. Every year since, they have come back to give a champagne toast on the minute for their small but stunning victory. The champagne is courtesy of the French villagers, just as it was on that fateful morning of what is now known as "the longest day." May the annual toast go on as long as freedom is cherished and champagne...
There are so many other interesting Harvard personages worthy of description: the math/Physics genius who lives on another planet, the Eliot House power-monger, the Milk-Toast achiever who lacks a personality but gets the grade, and the pre-thespian exhibitionist whose personality is always on display...
...death house, Beavers, who had waived his appeals and insisted that he wanted to die for the 1986 abduction and shooting of a Houston restaurant manager and the wounding of his wife, devoured a final meal of French toast, sausage, eggs, French fries and six brownies. Then he was led into the baby- blue death chamber and spread-eagled on a gray gurney. He was tied down with white leather straps and ace bandages. As a dozen state officials and reporters watched, Wayne Scott, the prison system's deputy operations chief, appeared in a doorway and intoned, "Warden...
...unassuming man. He lived with his wife of 53 years, Dottie, in a modest apartment in the unfashionable high-rise canyon of Rosslyn, Virginia, and drove an old blue Volkswagen to work most of his days. His only eccentricity has been his absolute devotion to routine. One egg, toast and coffee every morning at 8 a.m. in the court cafeteria with his clerks; a four-block walk around the building at lunchtime, along with a visit to the decrepit exercise room in the court's basement. On Saturday nights he and his wife listened to A Prairie Home Companion...